WGA was the least exciting guild this year, because everyone has known for months that Spotlight and The Big Short were going to win this, and that both will also win their respective Oscar screenplay categories as well. So this is was the least surprising result of the season, and tells us nothing new about the Oscar race.
- Original Screenplay: Spotlight
- Adapted Screenplay: The Big Short
- Documentary Screenplay: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief